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Adventures of a Modern Day, Middle-Aged Hero, on the Glory Road(to family security)

2.08.2014

And stay off my lawn!

I took my kids to see The Lego Movie today...and it was quite entertaining. Never once did I feel like I was being drug along to escort them to a 'family' movie. I read a review yesterday that said it was kind of like the guys from Robot Chicken decided to make a Matrix spoof, but had to keep it PG.

Just because I enjoyed the movie surrounded by a bunch of doesn't mean I didn't feel like an old man at one point. In fact, I was downright curmudgeonly.

Because we had some actual honest-to-goodness snow accumulation the last two days(3-4 inches), and the Tri-Cities doesn't handle that so well, I wanted to make sure I left us plenty of time to get to the theater. Of course, the street we live on is the only one in a 15 mile radius which hasn't been plowed, so we got to the movie 25 minutes early.

Sweet...good seats, which was nice, because the theater filled up pretty fast. 5 minutes before the movies scheduled start time, bigger groups were already having to split up...kids one row, parents another type things.

So...when a family of 5 walked in at 11:35 for what was supposed to be a 11:30 start time, and asked me if I would be willing to slide to the end of the row(where my kids and I had been sitting for half an hour by this time)....I said no.

I didn't pick a fight about it, or lecture...I just said I wasn't going to give up the premium seats I had been sitting in for 30 to slide 5 seats off center.

The dad kind of stared for a minute or two, before moving off.

I felt guilty about it for about 12 seconds, but the theater got dark, and the trailers started, so I didn't feel guilty anymore.

Although...the trailers did suck. It was all kids movies. I guess I was kind of hoping they would slide one in for something Transformers: Age of Extinction.

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"What did I want?

I wanted the hurtling moons of Barsoom. I wanted Storisende and Poictesme, and Holmes shaking me awake to tell me, "The games' afoot!" I wanted to float down the Mississippi on a raft and elude a mob in company with the Duke of Bilgewater and the Lost Dauphin. I wanted Prester John and Excalibur held by a moon-white arm out of a silent lake. I wanted to sail with Ulysses and with Tros of Samothrace and eat the lotus in a land that seemed always afternoon.

I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be -- instead of the tawdry, lousy, fouled-up mess it is."
-- Glory Road, Robert Heinlein